On principle, I think you could do it, but without knowing the first names it's hard to say for sure how it would sound. I'm guessing that the names are under wraps for now though. An alternative would be to use a family name from the other side of the family for the second twin's middle name. And I thought naming one baby was hard!

As long as you don't also give them similar first names... causes problems for data matching when you have similar first, & same middel and last names and DOB. Things like centrelink, even school enrolments do data matching.

your babies your rules!i dont know if i would personally do it but i dont think there is anything wrong with it. as long as the first names were very different....i know twin girls that are taliah and tarleah..now thats just too much to handle lol

My three boys all have the same middle name. It is a family name and we didn't want to use it as the first born sons first name so broke a long tradition and gave it to all our boys in the hope at least one of them carries it on.My SIL also used it as her sons middle name.Why is it weird to give more than one child a family name.???

your babies your rules!i dont know if i would personally do it but i dont think there is anything wrong with it. as long as the first names were very different....i know twin girls that are taliah and tarleah..now thats just too much to handle lol

I know twin boys Timmy and Tommy - they would be a match made in heaven.

I knew two sisters with the same middle name.. which was their mother's name. Which I thought was a little weird (they also had the same first initial which caused them some administrative problems at school)... but outside of that scenario I don't think there is anything wrong with it.

As long as you don't also give them similar first names... causes problems for data matching when you have similar first, & same middel and last names and DOB. Things like centrelink, even school enrolments do data matching.

At 9 weeks you have plenty of time left to discuss it. I am curious though, how you've decided on names when you have no genders yet?

They are identical so we have 2 boys names and 2 girls names, they will either be 2 boys or 2 girls. I had both sons named by 12 weeks and locked in, even bought personalised dummies and nappy bags at 20 weeks lol. I get a little adddicted.

DH and I just seem to agree, we never really argue over names. Both boys were easy, first names for girl for these ones was easy, middle names I am pretty sure we are going with the dame for both. Boys names will have our dad's names as middle names, first names we have a list of about 20 still and aven't clicked to any, DH crosses one of here and there so do I, at the end hopefully we are left with 2 names we like.

We will know gender in 6 weeks, 4D ultrasound, costing us $140 lol, just to find out the gender 5 weeks earlier, I need the time to plan for 2 babies and our 2 toddlers lol

Their middle names will only be the name is these babies are girls, we have sons so we couldn't use this name before now (fingerscrossed) If they are boys they will have my dad and DH dad's first names as their middle names.

Yep names under wraps for teh time being, probably only until we know gender.

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